Bacup Shoe Company
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Footwear, Shoes |
| Founded | 1928 |
| Founder | Ernst Goodwin |
| Headquarters | , |
| Subsidiaries | Redfoot[1] |
| Website | www |
The Bacup Shoe Company is a footwear company based in the village of Stacksteads, near Bacup, Lancashire, England. The Bacup Shoe Co. was founded in 1928 and incorporated in 1929 by Ernest Goodwin.[2] The Bacup Shoe company was one of the last well known footwear manufacturers to stop manufacturing in the late 1990s and turn to importing footwear from the Far East.[3][4] Suppliers are based in China (where the company is also based), Vietnam and Spain.[5][6]